The Boys From Brazil (1978)
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he finds an unregenerate Auschwitz doctor, patterned on Joseph Mengele and played by -- of all people -- Gregory Peck. Lieberman discovers that the murdered men had all fathered sons who were identical -- the results of a cloning experiment, designed to create a race of incipient Hitlers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, (more)
- Director(s):
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Boys From Brazil
This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he finds an unregenerate Auschwitz doctor, patterned on Joseph Mengele and played by -- of all people -- Gregory Peck. Lieberman discovers that the murdered men had all fathered sons who were identical -- the results of a cloning experiment, designed to create a race of incipient Hitlers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 127 mins
Complete Cast of The Boys From Brazil
- Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele
- James Mason - Eduard Seibert
- Uta Hagen - Frieda Maloney
- Denholm Elliott - Sidney Beynon
- John Dehner - Henry Wheelock
- Anne Meara - Mrs. Curry
- Jeremy Black - Jack Curry
- Jeremy Black - Simon Harrington
- Bruno Ganz - Prof. Bruckner
- Prunella Scales - Mrs. Harrington
- Linda Hayden - Nancy
- Mervyn Nelson - Stroop
- Carl Duering - Trausteiner
- Wolf Kahler - Schwimmer
- Georg Marischka - Gunther
- Wolfgang Preiss - Lofquist
- Laurence Olivier - Ezra Lieberman
- Lilli Palmer - Esther Lieber-man
- Steve Guttenberg - Barry Kohler
- Rosemary Harris - Herta Doring
- John Rubinstein - David Bennett
- Jeremy Black - Bobby Wheeloc
- Jeremy Black - Erich Doring
- David Hurst - Strasser
- Michael Gough - Mr. Harrington
- David Brandon - Schmidt
- Jurgen Andersen - Kleist
- Walter Gotell - Mundt
- Richard Marner - Doring
- Joachim Hansen - Fassler
- Günter Meisner - Franbach
- Director(s):
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Writer(s):
- Heywood Gould
- Producer(s):
- Stanley O'Toole, Martin Richards, Robert Fryer
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Violence, Adult Language, Not For Children, Brief Nudity)
- Categories:
- Mystery & Suspense
- 1978 - National Board of Review - Best Actor
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